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The Agora Talk “IP - Where Do Ideas Come From?” was held on Sunday, November 2, at the Event Hall of the Thessaloniki Music Center, within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in collaboration with the Municipality of Thessaloniki and with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA program.
On Saturday, November 1st, at the Pavlos Zannas theater, the audience of the 66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival had the opportunity to attend a fascinating masterclass, titled “Casting in the Age of Technology. Finding the Soul of a Story.” The masterclass is part of the new collaboration between the Festival and the International Casting Directors Association (ICDA), in an attempt to highlight the particularities, the challenges, and the crucial role of the multifaceted art of casting.
The International Casting Directors Association (ICDA) presented the Semiramis Award for Best Casting on Saturday, November 1st, at the Tonia Marketaki Theatre. This honorary award recognizes the significant contribution of casting directors and the decisive role they play in shaping the genre of a film, the performances and the audience's relationship with the storytelling. Tania Grunwald and Karin Jagd received the award for the film The Girl with the Needle by Magnus von Horn, followed by the screening of the film The Thing with Feathers by Dylan Southern.
Within the framework of the 66th Thessaloniki IFF, renowned costume designer Catherine George, a longtime collaborator of great filmmakers such as Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, and Lynne Ramsay, delivered an exciting masterclass, titled “Dressing the Story: The Art of Costume Design,” that centered on the art of costume design in cinema.
As part of the Agora of the 66th TIFF, the discussion titled “Case Study: The Great Chimera, a European series co-production in practice” was held on Saturday, November 1st at the Thessaloniki Music Center about the highly anticipated adaptation of M. Karagatsis’ The Great Chimera for the small screen.
